Professors Yang Hengquan and Jia Xiaojun from Shanxi University were named as recipients of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, according to university officials.

To date, there are a total of five teachers from Shanxi University that have been recipients. The number of the prize winners at SXU ranks 29th among the national colleges and universities and ranks first in Shanxi province.

The National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars is a fund especially established in order to promote the growth of young scientific and technical scholars.

It was also established to encourage overseas Chinese scholars to work in China and accelerate the cultivation of a number of outstanding academic leaders at the forefront of the world of science and technology.

Since its establishment in 1994, the fund has nominated recipients once a year.

The judging process is known to be very strict and the average acceptance rate is no more than 10 percent of the total applications.

Over the past 25 years, the fund has become a high-end young science and technology talent fund project with great influence in China.

About Yang Hengquan

Yang Hengquan is a professor of the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at Shanxi University and a doctoral supervisor. He has been engaged in green catalysis research for a long time -- developing a method for controlling the interfacial activity of solid catalysts, clarifying the intrinsic relationship between catalyst interfacial activity, emulsion interface properties and catalytic performance and proposing the concept of pickering milk solid bed catalysis.

About Jia Xiaojun

Jia Xiaojun is a professor of the Photoelectric Research Institute at Shanxi University and a doctoral supervisor. He has long been committed to scientific research in the fields of quantum optics and quantum information -- and has conducted a series of influential work in the preparation, manipulation and application of continuous variable non-classical light fields.